Raw pu-erh, young and alive: bright bitterness, orchard fruit and camphor, made to be aged or drunk on its nerve.
Recipe
- Temperature 88 °C · 190 °F
- Leaf 5 g
- Water 180 ml
- First steep 1:00
- Each next steep +0:20
- Steeps 6
Lore
Sheng is pu-erh as the caravans knew it: sun-dried leaf pressed for the road, changing slowly for decades. Young, it bites and blooms; aged, it settles into the cellar-calm its ripe sibling reaches by shortcut.